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    Cards (14)

    • ‘Ravi sat back on the harsh edge of the tub, deciding to hold out a bit longer. What fun if they were all found and caught...he alone left unconquered!"
      imagery, internal conflict, metaphor
    • ‘he bust through the crack, fell on his knees, got up and stumbled on stiff, benumbed legs’  
      imagery, alliteration
    • ‘he had been forgotten, left out and he would not join them now’
      repetition
    • ‘it took them a minute to grasp what he was saying, even who he was’
      irony
    • ‘the motherly Mira intervened’ 
      alliteration, personification, short sentences
    • ‘make a circle, make a circle!’ while ‘firmly pulling and pushing till a kind of vague circle was formed.’
      repetition, imagery
    •  ‘it was intolerable. Intolerable, all of it ... except, only for the seventy-five rupees paid at the end of the month.’
      repetition, irony
    • ‘longed passionately to listen to them...but to do this he would have to...
      hurl the Brahmin’s son down the iron stairs.’
    • ‘glanced at him, pretended not to care, pursed her lips to keep from giggling.’
      Irony, hyperbole
    • "'Go, go,' she warned! 'I hear the next one coming.'"
      exclamation mark
    • ‘went there daily, for the whole day and soon he got to know it as well as his own room’ 
    • ‘books seemed to be attached to his hands as though by roots, they were a part of him’
      simile, metaphor
    • ‘cuts and fries, cuts and fries. All day I hear her chopping and slicing and the pan of oil hissing.’
      repetition, onomatopoeia
    • "Suno, drink your milk. Good for you, Suno ... must have it, Suno. Drink."
      repetition
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